I love all you getting so strung up on semantics.
It is a sport that is called football throughout most of the world and soccer in th U.S. and nothing in places that have not heard of it, this fighting over a name is rediculously unimportant. Anyone who likes, loves, or even knows what this sport is (no matter what name) should be able to relate with others about it, not get into fights about it. Well not about the name at least (BTW: I call it Shanaka-ball for no reason but to piss you comment-writing poets off).

the 12th guy in the photo at the beginning is a hoaxer called karl power.he also managed to walk out to bat for england at headingley, get on the podium at silverstone grand prix ahead of michael schumacher, play on centre court at wimbledon, and dance the haka in rome pretending to be an england rugby player.genius

^ u stupid arrogant american pig. this is the WORLD WIDE WEB muthafucka, and that means that the WORLD can view this website freely. and whether u like it or not football (soccer) was there first, so it should be called FOOTBALL you fucking ignorant piece of shit.
I agree with this guy

AAAHAHAHAHAHA!!! So many brilliant moments, and with the Rocky-music going in the background. I love how naked running guy comes back on the field after being chased away. Brilliant, he should get his own TV-show.

Darwin talked about evolution as the survival of the fittest. For the most part, this makes sense. There's just one major exception to the rule though. The Americans. Now not wanting to generalise as I'm sure there are some smart Americans out there (somewhere), but how can a nation call a sport where you run arund in suits of armour holding a Rugby ball "football" and likewise, call a sport where you run around kicking a ball with your feet "soccer"?
Furthermore, they manage to hold a World Series without the world taking part.
Then there's people like 1337Rooster who said:
"...Arguably football is more popular than football worldwide, but thats not to say that football is not popular around the world as well.
See its simply called soccer to avoid confusion"
I say keep football as it is. Change the American sport name to "Ad break filler". Or better still, just air more ads - it seems to be what the public want to see.
It's scary to think that the most powerful nation in the world could be so single minded. (single? Should that be simple?)
Americans. More like Ameri-can't see anything but themselves.

I mean look at this:
Football is typically called Football since it allthough it similar to rugby it shares many characteristics to football aswell. Football is played on a football field, where football is also commonly played. The football goal posts are given two poles which make the uprights for a football endzone. Although in football one uses their feet primiarily, in football although not primarily there are special teams which make great use of their feet during those plays. Perhaps football has the same name as football since it shares that characteristic of football in that way. Although football and football are completely different sports, football is typically played more in europe and football is typically played more in north america. Thats not to say that europe does not have football leagues and north america does not have football leagues. And there are football players who come from north america to play football in europe as well as football players who come from europe to play football in north America. Also, yet more rarely occuring, football players from North America will go to Europe to play football, and football players from Europe will come to America to play football. Regardless football and football are both loved sports aroung the world. Arguably football is more popular than football worldwide, but thats not to say that football is not popular around the world as well.
See its simply called soccer to avoid confusion

whats the big deal? some call it soccer some call it footbal, some call it both.l And like thats not just Americans, in Canada people usually call it soccer too. Probably again because american football is a more popular sport here, so it would be too confusing to have two things the same name. People really only call it soccer for that main reason, so simply avoid confusion

wow, anyone else see those 2 hot chicks in yellow checking out the action? oh... guess not, everyone around here seems too busy whining and bitching about the bad quality of the video/how fake it is because its a nike commerical/saying football and soccer terms. Morons.

wow, xAgonyxScenex you are really stupid lol sorry but i have to put it out there.
are u forgetting the www at the beginning of both?
jus because its not a .com.au doesnt mean i cant visit this site u fucking twit
SERIOUSLY some of you ignorant fools need to think before u say, because clearly your brain doesnt work quick enough to process any of the shit that comes out of your mouth

"I like the ref tripping the streaker. Let's be honest...almost all games/sports
are based on something that came before them. Soccer, tennis, hockey,
basketball, ping-pong, lacrosse, cricket, baseball, rugby and American football
are all played on similar fields/courts, with slight variations in rules and goals. "
Lacrosse is unrelated to the others, it comes from a Cherokee game, I think hockey and basketball are independent as well but the others at least have relatives on your list, though they are not all related. Its more like
Soccer-rugby-American football
cricket-baseball
tennis-ping-pong(-badmitton-volleyball too)
"The main difference between Americans and other countries is that we
are elitists who allow only Canada to play in the NATIONAL Basketball
Association"
I really don't get this, how does any of this make Americans eletist? If anything this is inclusive, most other nations don't have teams from other countries playing in their leagues. Plus it was the NBA long before there were any Candian teams, and they weren't changing the name for the Raptors and Grizzlies.
"and our fans only riot in their own hometown when our team
WINS -(brilliant, huh?)."
Riots are rare and a championship team is probably not the real reason behind most. There have been riots in Los Angeles, Detroit, and College Park Maryland that I can remember. In two of those three the real reason was probably more social problems+large crowds+high emotion+alcohol.
"And we only travel around the world to spread
the love of our sports (and our culture) in efforts to gain new markets
ripe for exploitation. Yes...I'm talking about you Europe and Asia.*wink*"
Who are you talking about? Atheletes and coaches may travel around the world to encourage participation in their sport, and business people may try to reach new markets, but most Americans who are going abroad don't fit either of those groups and don't care about either of those reasons.
"Best yet...I don't really care for any sports."
I would never have guessed that
"Most are so ego-testicle!!!! NO that is not a typo...I know how to spell egotitstical...it is a pun! :P
Really? I just though you put the hyphen in there for no reason, or that you don't know what egotistical means because that sentence really doesn't make any sense with the actual word in there.

I like the ref tripping the streaker. Let's be honest...almost all games/sports
are based on something that came before them. Soccer, tennis, hockey,
basketball, ping-pong, lacrosse, cricket, baseball, rugby and American football
are all played on similar fields/courts, with slight variations in rules and goals.
The main difference between Americans and other countries is that we
are elitists who allow only Canada to play in the NATIONAL Basketball
Association and our fans only riot in their own hometown when our team
WINS -(brilliant, huh?). And we only travel around the world to spread
the love of our sports (and our culture) in efforts to gain new markets
ripe for exploitation. Yes...I'm talking about you Europe and Asia.*wink*
Best yet...I don't really care for any sports. Most are so ego-testicle!!!!
NO that is not a typo...I know how to spell egotitstical...it is a pun! :P

that's what I don't get: how the fuck americans call it soccer. It's football goddammit! you play it with the feet. FOOT BALL. for them it's normal to call their rugby like football when they run with HANDS on ball :)) so to me it's close to HAND BALL! I don't know how this has happened, but I'm truly amazed how this is so logical to americans, and to top that they insist with their version, making them look even more stupid!
Cheers mates!

I'm guessing being naked would help prevent people catching you cause there isnt any clothes to grab onto or anything. What's the bet that guy got some kind of money for evading everyone and running around the pitch in those shoes =P

^ u stupid arrogant american pig. this is the WORLD WIDE WEB muthafucka, and that means that the WORLD can view this website freely. and whether u like it or not football (soccer) was there first, so it should be called FOOTBALL you fucking ignorant piece of shit.